![[New Orleans, Octoroons, Interracial Relations, Slavery:] L’Article 47, or Breaking the Ban. Adolphe Belot, Henry L. Williams.](/images/noimage-req.png)
“The octoroon despised, spurned, penned up in scornful coolness, liable to public sale and scourge—the colored woman you see yonder, kept a white man for..... Read More
Three manuscripts pertaining to the estate of Benjamin Morgan (?–1826), Philadelphia merchant and sugar planter, later President of the Bank of Orleans at New Orleans... Read More
![[Coffee, Tobacco, Cotton etc., Import/Export Trade with America:] Bremen 10, Dec. 1800. Craving Your Reference to our circular… [opening lines of circular letter with price list]. Fredk., Everhd. Delius, Frederick and Everhard Delius.](/pictures/thumb/3726520_1.jpg?v=1534362400)
Signed 18th century circular letter and price list from Frederick and Everhard Delius, merchants of Bremen. The firm imported food goods and other commodities from... Read More
Legal instrument protest signed by John Neilson, Jr., Notary Public, at the request of Messrs. Corning & Co. This latter firm presented a bill of... Read More
Writ of execution issued by New Orleans judge Charles Watts in the case of Citizens Bank of Louisiana vs. Hagan, Niven & Co., & Buchanan... Read More
1925 Book of technical specifications for grading, cutting, and fabricating Southern pine lumber for construction and architectural use. The illustrated booklet was prepared by the... Read More
![The White Slave. [Stereoview Card]. Dealer in.. Stereoscopes William Harrison, Views.. Philadelphia.](/pictures/thumb/3726682_1.jpg?v=1534362441)
Stereoview photograph of an African-American dandy having his shoes shined by a little white boy. The caption title, The White Slave, archly refers both to... Read More
